Oprah Winfrey's cable channel struck a distribution deal with Comcast Corp., CMCSA -0.52% lifting the number of homes in which the network can be seen. Christopher Stewart has details on Lunch Break.

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... I ... I'm ... the key deal network ... which she owns with the discovery Communications the destructive the deal with ... Comcast ... to put on three million more ... of their subscribers channels ... it's been popping up from about fourteen million to seventy million which means that ... all total about eighty three million homes in this or seen her own network nothing might not think that bump up its that big a big deal but it wasn't pretty critical time does it for the phone network to mean if it some troubles that have layoffs recently Wall Street that he added that a ton of people ... executive departures cost restructuring ... um and ... really the sagging ratings so they've been really liking to ... figure out who they are ... and you get people watching as you as you know the channels way up in the hinterlands has been very difficult people find it right ... aam and most recently Oprah return on their people want more address issues returned to his hands and ... pretty ... highly rated interviews ... with that with Houston's family for one ... so you know there's been a big big boost in ratings there and in this with this this contest you both of them ... along with a bunch of Wales which doesn't just gone through ... on a present needed money into the network ... Avici Oprah can be on her own network twenty four seven in the nets are the problem people buy and Oprah will they bite and ... everybody else that she brings on ... to this channel D it ... was a tricky time ... to be launching a network like this when our viewing habits are just so fragmented ... with everything else is out there available ... online on cable now ... it's can be very difficult for her and you know obviously she had a significant fall in which he had grown so the question is here is that ... is that's liberty to carry over to not only from ... the throne Show but can she spread it through the network in twenty four seven ... aam you know it's conceded that the big challenge but ... he certainly has ... she she ... may be a real argument for that for that that would be a will the research features ... that's when a downgrade ... on the subscription fees veteran place here with Comcast and what they mean that in layman's terms for people who know all the industry was half the white matter so much that the campus network well she uses that sufficient these every ... networks are paid ... subscription fees for each of the subscribers that the cable operators have ... confidence that this particular network so it's ... in Comcast is being one largest cable operator is it's it's un clear exactly what the to be paying for ... undertow for Channel aam but ... the other cable operators to know ... satellite operators ... probably didn't pay coming in two thousand thirteen about twenty cents to thirty cents for each subscriber okay so that adds up a sixty three million right keep subscribers for the Oprah channel ... you do that it's it's a lot of money